Cisco’s subliminal iPhone message
Posted on January 26th, 2007 at 13:01 in Monkey Business
Reading my daily email, i stumbled upon an IETF draft released this week, that talks about a new proposal on some routing procedures draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt. Right about now you should be wondering what does this have anything to do with anything, specially the iPhone ? Well the draft, submitted by Cisco, has a few quirks in it! So, I ran a grep on it to see if i could find Apple’s precious baby:
$ grep iPhone draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt -n -A 1 -B 1
324- be a host computer, a switch or router device, or any network 325: appliance. An iPhone. 326- -- 819- the sum of all weight values MUST equal 100. Going to buy an 820: iPhone? If a zero value is used for any RLOC weight, then all 821- weights must be zero and the receiver of the Reply will decide how
Surprisingly the iPhone pops up twice. Talk about subliminal messages and trademark fights, or maybe just to check if anyone really reads some of these IETF drafts ?
this is what happens when you let marketing guys around your computer while editing a draft.. or watching naked girls! bastards, they’re all alike!
One thing I’ve learned so far is: always lock your screen before you leave your desk.
And why ? Well, let’s just say that someone always comes around doing monkey business. And yeah, i learned this the hard way.
After a friend of mine saw this, he actually contacted the authors. Seems like they were just doing the little monkey flip.
Hey, it’s a great way of checking if anybody reads the draft or not. How many times have I wondered if someone actually reads the drafts I write.
A big cheers to the draft’s authors. They certainly added a fun break to my day.
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